Dear All
I want to share my views and your comments as well. We have a new project manager after a gap of more than one month. The project at status the moment
1- Progress percentage around 53%
2- 13 months behind the schedule
3- Project revised finish date is 30th June 2013 and its 22nd June 2013 today
4- Waiting for the response to our 4th EOT claim
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Off course the higher management must have briefed him the scope but, being a planner, I was thing that I would be the first one whom he would like to see on the site. Instead, he met the people in the order below
1- Construction manager
2- Project Engineers
3- Procurement officer
4- QS
5- QA/QC Manager
6- The Engineer
7- The Client’s Representative
8- Site engineers
9- Foremen (charge hands)
10- Me (the planner)
I was the last whom he met. After a short introduction he asked me to give him
1- A list of activities that we can execute, the activities we have all the resources available (manpower, material, logistics and petty cash)
2- Drawings Submittal Log, Material Submittal Log and Procurement log
by tomorrow morning. He didn’t ask me to give the contractual program (baseline / clause 14 program) or the working / recovery program.
I was very surprised as to why he didn’t ask for the program. But when I think over it I realized that he was right. We are 13 month behind contractual program, even the recovery program has also failed. The only thing we must concentrate on is what we can do / finis immediately or as soon as possible.
QUESTION:
1- Am I right
2- If not what should be his approach
3- If I am right, what are the more benefits of this approach
4- Your comments on his approach
5- What more he (or we or me) can do
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